If bidirectional text is enabled in Notes, you can set the reading order for paragraphs in a document. Put the document in Edit mode. Select the text that you want to specify a reading order for. Click Text Text Properties. Click the Paragraph Alignment tab. Click LefttoRight or RighttoLeft ...

If you are using a bidirectional language such as Arabic or Hebrew, you can set the Notes menus and text to read in the direction appropriate for the language, and specify cursor movement appropriate to the language. In Notes Basic Click File Preferences User Preferences Macintosh OS X ...

In Notes Standard Click File Preferences Macintosh OS X users: Click Lotus Notes Preferences. Click Regional Settings. Click the Change button for Sorting Optional: Select Display all sort rules to see a list of languages. Optional : If you use Unicode fonts, click Unicode standard ...

You can use additional language dictionaries to check the spelling in documents that use more than one language. To indicate which language dictionary to use, you tag the text in the document to check spelling against a language specific dictionary (the correct language dictionary must be ...

You can choose a different interface language to change the language You will see the Interface Language field only if you have a language version of Lotus Notes, or have installed a language pack on an English version of Notes. In standard Notes Click File Preferences. Macintosh OS X users: ...

When you send an email that contains characters in another language, you can select the character set for that language, to ensure that it displays correctly.

You can choose whether mail sends multilingual mail messages in Unicode, Best Match, or if it prompts you each time to ask which format. In standard Notes Click File Preferences. Macintosh OS X users: Click Lotus Notes Preferences. Click the plus sign beside Mail, and then click Internet. ...

It's often helpful to add words to your personal dictionary, known as the user dictionary. These are words that you use commonly and are not found in a standard dictionary.

When you import or export files, you can specify the character translation file that Lotus Notes uses to translate characters (such as international currency symbols) in the files.